and the only solution i would tell you lies with us, the american people, and with us, the voters. demanding that they start working together. and actually coming up with something. we cannot continue to have the spectacles every few months. it is like making sausage. >> can we talk about the optics of this, maria, because many people say, i hear you up there, guys, don, and this is a republican and democratic problem, but we are here h because the republicans won't play ball. >> well, i mean, you nknow, it s easy for me to say that and i actually do think that politically the republicans will suffer more if this is not done. i mean the republicans lost the election, and a big reason was because the middle-class americans and the normal everyday people didn't think that this was a party that understood what they were going through. and if they are now seen as being the ones that are making taxes go up on everybody because they want to protect taxes for the rich, that is not going to be politically good for them. but at the end of the day, this is not good for democrats either, so i